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Provides historical information on Islam and the Muslim world, including the religion's founding by the Prophet Muhammad, the spread of Islam outside the Arabian Peninsula, and political rule by various dynasties.

Examines the literature and visual arts of the Muslim world throughout history, and describes distinguishing features of various Islamic cultures.

Traces world history from the perspective of the Muslim community, explaining how common historical timelines ignore the contributions, advancements, and importance of the Islamic people and discussing how their narrative changed once they were exposed to the European world.

"Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. ... The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies, and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day."--Back cover.

Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. White Privilegeexamines the historical forces that have disadvantaged people of color and discusses how these forces continue to influence the media education politics and other areas of life today. Features include essential facts a glossary references websites source notes and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing a division of ABDO.

"Beginning in the twelfth century, the migration of various Turkic peoples over a four-century period greatly influenced the political and cultural organization of the Islamic world. This title assesses various factors including the Mongol incursions and the Crusades during the period of expansion and renewal leading up to Ottoman rule. Also covered are the impacts of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization on Islamic societies. This in-depth, academic guide's exploration of the history of Islam through the present gives readers the tools they need to understand the politics and culture of and the problems faced by the Islamic world today"--Amazon.com.

"Presents the history of Islam, beginning with the agrarian prehistory of Afro-Eurasia and the rise of Arabian city-states. It then offers a biographical treatment of Muhammad, followed by an assessment of the spread of Islam and its splintering into diverse factions that occurred in the centuries following Muhammad's death. Resources, including a timeline, help readers contextualize and connect the various regional developments during Islams early period"--Amazon.com.

"Explores the history of contact between the Muslim and Western civilizations during the fourteen centuries since Islam was established"--.

Analyzes the data collected from twenty years worth of polling collected by groups like the Gallup Organization and the Pew Research Center which tracked attitudes and opinions of tens of thousands of people living in predominantly Muslim countries like Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Egypt. Questions addressed the views of Muslims toward their local political systems, culture, religion, family life, and the United States--.